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According to firemen on the scene, the blaze started in the basement corridor outside the band room. Rising along the stairway, it spread through the entire building, creating extensive damage on the second and third floors. Most of the interior of the Club, in the words of one fireman, was "gutted...
...dance version of Winesburg, Saddler focused on four of the book's most luridly contorted figures: Elizabeth Willard. whose uncontrollable love for her son feeds "the feeble blaze of life that remained in her;" the Peeping-Tom minister, the Rev. Curtis Hartman, who sees God in a naked woman; a love-starved spinster named Alice Hindman; and the local doxy, one Louise Trunnion. As Anderson had done, Choreographer Saddler used the inflamed observations of George Willard, Elizabeth's son and a reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, as the thread to stitch the incidents together...
Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...
...Washington Senator McClellan had the last word, just as his labor-management investigating committee hoped ultimately to have the last word when hearings begin next month. And what stern John McClellan had to say added up to a different kind of blaze across the sky. Open defiance of legal federal inquiry ''really challenges the sovereignty of government.'' said he. "Though we haven't even scratched the surfaces yet, the incidents of violence and attempted intimidation underscore the need for laws to drive the crooks out of the labor movement...
...clanging of a flotilla of fire engines--about ten strong--cut through the quiet of a lethargic reading period afternoon yesterday, and students poured out of Lamont and other assorted sanctuaries to watch what should have been by all odds the blaze of the year...